Medicinal tablet.



To all whom it may concern:

. tablets disintegrate in many cases very "disintegrated either in the-stomach or in similar properties, such as for instance agar- :many, have invented certain new and uses 'ful Improvements in Medicmal Tablets;

a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, suchas will enable others skilled and usethe same.

pared with an admixture of starch or talcum, and this admixture has in fact, in some do not suffice to insure an easy-disintegravin the astric juice, the tablets mayibe covcred with a coating of hardened gelatin.

ARTHUR HOROWITZ, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

MEDICINAL TABLET.

No Drawing Be it known that I, ARTHUR Honowrrz, manufacturing chemist, a -citizen of the German Empire, residing atBerlin, Gerand I do hereby declare the-following'to be in the art to which it appertains to make My invention relates to compressed tablets for medicinal-purposes and to a process for making these tablets.

It is a well known fact, that compressed slowly, and the medicinal drug contained. therein does not come into eflect in the desired way. In order to facilitate the disintegrat ion, tablets of this kind have been precases proved effective. With certain drugs" however, such as for instance thymol-sodium benzoyloxy-benzoate, even starch or talcum tion of the tablets prepared therewith.

According to my invention a tablet 0011-. taining thymol-sodium benzoyloxy-benzoate or any other drug opposing itself to an easy disintegration of the tablet, is easily disintegrable if made up with pulverized gelatin,

havingv been hardened with formaldehyde or in any other well-known manner. Thus a tablet consisting. of a compressed mixture of 75 percent. of pulverized thymol-sodium benzoyloxy-benzoate and per cent. of pul-, verized hardened gelatin becomes rapidly water. The gelatin may be replaced with the same effect by other substances having agar, laminaria, fucus, Iceland moss or carrageen moss;

In order to render these tablets linsoluble Specification 01 Letters Patent. Patented Mar. Application filed March 23, 1910. Serial No. 551,096.

In order .to make compressed tablets according to my. invention, I mix a suitable quantity of the pulverized drug with pul "verized hardenedgelatin, or with some other pulverized hardened substances fit to replace the gelatin, such as agar-agar, laminaria,

fucus, Iceland moss or carrageen moss, and

I then compress the mixture in theusual way and by the usual means.

I am aware that capsules consisting of hardened gelatin and containing medicinaloils are old. These capsules however on be ing .p artially dissolved in the alkaline intestmal juice deliver the whole of their contents at once into the intestine, a severe irri-v tation of the intestine frequently resulting therefrom; whereas the tablets made up of a compressed mixture of pulverized drugs.

and pulverized gelatin, while decomposing readily, nevertheless distribute the drug over a greater part of the intestine, thereby avoiding irritation. I

I am further aware that pills made up of a molten mixture of medicinal drugs and gelatinhave-been known before. These pills i however dissolve very slowly even in the' alkaline intestinal juice, and thereforevery often leave the body without having had the time to deliver the'greater part of the drug they contain.

I claim:

1. A compressed tablet for medicinal purposes consisting of. a compressed mixture of a pulverized drug and pulverized hardene gelatin, substantially as described.

2. p A -compressed tablet for medicinal purposes consisting of a compressed mixture of apulverized drug and pulverizedhardened gelatin, said compressed mixture being covered externally with a. coating of hardened gelatin, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I alfix my signature in presence of two witnesses. 1 L ARTHUR 'H OROVVITZ. Witnesses:

'IIENRY HASPER, 1 WOLDEMAR HAUPT.- 

